Artificial Intelligence / Unit 1 AI 0016 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Learning Turn
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The idea
Modern artificial intelligence is dominated by systems that learn from very large collections of examples — the approach that overtook hand-written rules in the 2010s.
In practice
In 2012 a learning system won the ImageNet vision challenge by a wide margin; in 2017 the transformer carried the lesson into language.
Where people slip
The turn's costs — data hunger, opacity — are content, not footnotes; Unit 8 itemizes them.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
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